DotHACK: Hating to Love You
Chapter 12 written by Vincent Noble Valentine...
Last time on DotHACK: Hating to Love You- The legendary Hacker Helba had orchestrated a sinister plan with the help of slightly protesting Balmung who had no choice but to accept her offer of joining in on her little scheme. The goal: To trap both Kite and Blackrose, famed hero's of 'the world' and estranged lovers within Omega Raging Facing Mirrors Virgin in hopes that they would sort out the mishaps of their relationship thanks to one Terajime Ryoko who had intervined on their relationship and stepped over Blackrose's territory in hopes of claiming Kite for herself.
Since then things between Blackrose and Kite have been nothing but sour. Ryoko had tried repeatedly to get with Kite with or without Blackrose present and Kite himself was keeping away from Ryoko as much as possible while all the while feeling miserable about Blackrose hating his guts and feeling guilty about his betrayal towards her. As of now both Kite and Blackrose are trapped within Omega Raging Facing Mirrors Virgin with no hope of escape as they were permanantly sealed within the server thanks to the ever mischevious Helba, while Ryoko was trapped in the Net Slum, whose access to that very server they were in was 'access denied permanantly BITCH!'
Preferably as the writer I would have preffered that she was bound and gagged and left in the corner to fume all the while but alas we can't have that, INSTEAD the oh not so innocent 'angel' heavyaxeman was hanging from the ceiling with duct tape over her mouth, while all the other players from Kite's crew where trying to hit her repeatedly with a wooden baseball bat. I think they call this game Pinyadda but I could be mistaken. It's mostly used party game where kids have to try and hit a stuffed toy hanging from the ceiling with sweets inside and the aim of the game was to destroy it blind-folded.
I KNOW it's evil to put Ryoko in this sort of position BUT I am the author of this little ficcy and from the looks of the reviews insert sweatdrop here well you don't like Ryoko much do you? heh. Anyway ON WITH THE FIC!
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If Blackrose had ever approached her limit before in her life, I think now would be most fortunate of times to admit that she had surpassed those harsh moments in life and that now she was more than livid or positively pissed. Her temper had grown new leaps and bounds, as she stomped her way thru the dungeon with Kite in tow, following loosely behind her. Fearing that if he approached her or even once tried to attempt to take charge and lead the way would mean his very life AND afterlife, thats possible right? 0o;;
If anything I'd say that Kite had made the first wise choice or rather the only choice he could take. There was no choice 2 or 3. It was simply follow her, shut up and hope she doesn't kill you for merely breathing as an excuse. Kite had seen Blackrose before, many times, thousands even, but NEVER to this extent. Back then her temper tamptrums to Kite would seem like a stampede of rabid fan girls that wanted to glomp you, screaming things along the lines of 'I want your autograph' or 'MARRY ME!' or even 'I'm pregnant and it's yours!'
But THIS sort of tamtrum she was showing now...well how to pinpoint it? Think of the worst natural disaster's, the very worst that the planet can offer and double all those by two and you get how Blackrose was acting right now. This isn't an exaggeration, this was Blackrose at her very worst and 'Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned'
She was stomping ahead of him with her sword drawn smashing crates or anything that got in her line of vision, anything to vent her frustration on, luckily anything other than Kite for the moment. Kite for his part could even swear that her footprints left small craters in the floor to where ever she stepped. Blackrose was like a raging volcano awaiting to erupt, ready for the molten lava to go flying everywhere and to burn the flesh off in seconds to any innocent bystander who was caught in it's fiery wake.
To make matters worse Blackrose was cursing. Not the occassional swear word she would throw in on a sentance every now and then. The swear words that left her lips previously before the Phases or even before they entered the dungeon made people like George Bush or even the worst army drill sargents seem like saints. Swearing seemed the like the only thing that was keeping her 'sane' at the moment, other than muttering the word 'fuck' a lot. And yes as I said she was mumbling as well, talking to herself with every step she took, it was like watching an elderly person who had lost their sanity that came with old age, which forced the elderly to speak and mumble to themselves as the walked up and down the street, very disturbing.
Thinking more on that, it's even disturbing to admit that even as children growing up we talked to ourselves believeing we had imaginary friends and even worse we do it all over again when were old and senile, talk about a loop hole.
Kite was sorely tempted to actually believe Piros on the notion that Blackrose really had PMS, but Kite wasn't going to voice that idiots idea anytime soon.
"For fucks sake, what the fuck is going on here! I swear I'm gonna gut Helba when I find her and nail her fucking intestines to the wall!"
Yep, that confirmed it. Blackrose was still definetly angry. Kite wisely decided to stay quiet to her explosion of rage and tagged along still, idly looking about.
"Hey I asked you a fucking question! Answer me goddammit!"
Ok scratch that, staying quiet wasn't the wise choice after all. How can you win with females sometimes? One it's impossible to win an arguement with the female species and two you can never know what is the right or wrong thing to do or say because in either case it backfires. It's like gambling, there's a 50-50 chance you can win or lose, it all depends on the person and his luck. Hell it's even worse trying to lie to a woman, especially your mother: it's just not possible! What's a good anology for it...It's like trying to take a piss in a public lavatory while standing beside a person 2 foot taller than you, it's just not possible.
"I...don't know?"
"There you go again, giving me the same BLOODY answer! Stop that, it's fucking irritating!"
"...Sorry"
"Whatever, let's just keep going and get this over with"
From that point on, onwards into the dungeon things from there were pretty much silent between the couple apart from the odd mutter and more than occassional swear word from Blackrose. There were a few monsters in some sections but nothing that either Blackrose or Kite couldn't handle, but then again it was more like Blackrose was hacking them all to death repeatedly like some evil dervish while all Kite could do was stand there and look on blankly, seeming mi-nute to the entire situation and silently very thankful that he wasn't in the monster's shoes, if it had any.
The events that continued from there seemed rather repeated, like a broken record. Blackrose would do all the work slashing and hacking away like a madman all Kite could do was stand there in fear and awe. Mostly fear. Things were going smoothly until they came to the last room holding a Data Bug, which came as a slight surprise to Kite mostly who thought Helba had lied in first place. Perhaps there were dangerous Data Bugs still populating 'the World' after all.
The time for thought was gone, the time now was for action and Blackrose was already leaping in action as she had many times before, only this time she was forgetting she was going one on one with a Data Bug, risking life and limb. Kite didn't even think of staying out of this one, this was far too dangerous just to idly stand by even if Blackrose was majorly pissed at him, if they didn't work together they could end up as new coma patients, or worse.
They both expertly worked together as a solid unit, unleashing their techniques in perfect succession, working in a fluid fashion like poetry in motion. A slash here, a cut there. The screams of battle cries and roaring from the Data Bug littered the room with gusto. It wasn't long before they both had weakened it and it's data protection had broken, just one data drain and it would all be over. But Blackrose in all her heated frustration carelessly forgot to keep an eye on the tail of the skeletal monster and was swatted aside painfully, a severe gash of blood over her chest and stomach as she was flung back, violently hitting the side of the dungeon walls.
Kite himself seeing this caused something in him to snap, setting his eyes ablaze with even greater fury then ever thought imaginable. Blackrose may have been many things when she was angry or annoyed physically or verbally, but seeing the monster manhandle her like that caused Kite to go over the edge. Even though she hated him, deep down in all his guilt in all that happened before still loved her and with the injury she now suffered awakened anger in him that he never he could possess. Using the bracelet took a single shot with a fierce battle cry and blasted the giant skeletal creature into oblivion, rewriting it's data into nothing more than a small creature before he finally terminated it's programming with a violent swipe of his twin blades.
Anger soon turned into heavy breathing and then slowly to relief and then suddenly to fear as he turned to his side to see Blackrose still lying on the side by the wall out cold. Immediately he rushed to her side and assessed her body, checking quickly before kneeling down and propping her head onto his lap while placing his hand over the damaged areas and casting Ola Repth with what little energy points he had left.
A cough from Blackrose startled him slightly but stayed still, silently watching her as her eyes fluttered open. Waiting for some form of verbal abuse from her.
"...Your an asshole, you know"
Well he guessed right, an insult he got but it seemed a little less venomnous then her usual remarks.
"Yeah...I guess I am, sorry about that"
"Is..it gone?" she asked a little softer still.
"Yeah, it's gone"
"Good, we got the little bastard then eh?" she said smiling a little causing him to nod back in return.
"Why did you kiss her?"
"W-what?"
"Why did you kiss Ryoko? Wasn't I good enough for you?"
"I didn't kiss her" Kite replied firmly, looking very serious.
"What? But I saw you both there kissing!"
"That's partly true. You saw Ryoko kissing me...but I didn't kiss her back"
"R-really?" she asked, hope slowly drifting back in her heart.
"Yeah...really. I was waiting for you to log on and come find me in Mac Anu that day. I was by the bridge when you saw us and I didn't even notice that she was there until she approached me. Before I could ask her what she was doing, Ryoko litterly threw herself on me. I tried to push her off me but she was holding onto me like a vice. I DIDN'T return the kiss and I DIDN'T want her"
Blackrose even in her state trying to relax and get used to the healing powers of the Ola Repth he casted on her was looking up at him square in the eyes, looking for any form or lie or doubt, but when he looked square back at her, unblinking and not turning away deep down she knew he was telling the truth. The heavyblade started to chew her lip lightly as her mind wandered. After all this time, all the anger and emotions she felt against him and Ryoko, was it really right to blame him entirely for a situation that wasn't his fault that he couldn't avoid? Was it right for her to vent all her frustration all onto him when he had been loyal and faithful, while all she had done was berate him and walk all over him like the peverbial door mat? For the first time in a really long while Blackrose was really starting to feel guilty.
"Kite...I hate you, you really are an asshole"
"What?"
"Sometimes that is...after all we've been thru, I can't decide how I feel about you. Your the only guy that I've REALLY opened up too and slowly but openly cared for. It scares me a lot when I think about it. Letting someone in, becoming weak, letting that person know all your secrets and how you feel. It makes you feel vanurable and naked to the world. Back then, that's what made it so easy...being a complete bitch to others and pushing them away. It made life so much easier standing on your own two feet believing you can do anything when you stand alone, that way no one can get to know you or hurt you"
"But then you came along and then you made everything difficult. My life was so simple before you entered it, before we first met, even after we teamed together. But as things got more serious fighting the Phases and trying to save lives, things between us changed, I changed...I started to care for someone other than family and it got harder to decide what to say or do about you. And the rest after 'the World' was saved...well you know how things went from there, we both do"
"Yeah..." was his only reply.
"And then Ryoko had to come along and FUCK everything up and I felt like I was back at square one, but more importantly I felt like I lost a very important part of myself. Even though I was angry, pissed off and annoyed it made things a little easier hating you because even though I hated you, I hated the fact that I loved you. Hating to love you was all that was keeping me going and all that got me thru the days that I was miserable...so with my hating you and believing your an asshole makes it easier y'know?"
"Yeah..." was his reply again but this time slowly lowering his head to steal a long and missed kiss.
After the kiss ended after a while, Kite lifted his head up to look down at her.
"Kite...just two things?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"One don't ever do this to me again, I don't think my heart will be able to take it. I really don't want to lose you again" she answered truthfully.
"You never really lost me to begin with, I was always here, we were just apart. And the second thing?"
"When we get back the Net Slum, let's hang Helba from the ceiling by her intestines ok?"
All Kite could from that last request was smile for the first time in a long while before moving his head down to steal another kiss.
Author's note: YAY chapter 12 is finally up., but is this the end? Has this story finally come to a close or is there more to come? If there is more what goes on from here? How will Ryoko react to Blackrose and Kite patching thing's up? Is Helba really going to be gutted and castrated as Blackrose has vowed? Will this fic ever truly be finished? WHO KNOWS! MWAHAHA! You'll just have to tune in and see.
As for my reviews, thank you thank you thank you. I'm really honoured and flattered that my fic has become so popular. As to the question of why didn't I post how Natsume felt about Kite, well the truth is that I hardly ever used Natsume when playing DotHACK, so I never got the chain mails or how she felt about Kite. I mostly used Kite, Blackrose and Wiseman/Mistral. Those were my favourite combinations, other times I used Moonstone and I absolutely HATED the adventures with Piros, his music and his voice was just so FUCKING annoying!
Anyway there were a lot of Ryoko haters out there too and to be honest I prefer the Blackrose/Kite pairings. So much better. So keep in touch and leave a review if you like to tell me how it's going and if there should be more? Laters!
Signed Vincent Noble Valentine...